The Taliban Win: The Aftermath in Afghanistan and in the World

By Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhurySINGAPORE, Aug 30 2021 (IPS)
Some years ago, on a piece on the Afghan crisis I had written that Mullah Omar’s face bore no resemblance to that of the impossibly beautiful, albeit mythical, Helen of Troy. Yet it too had caused the launch of a thousand ships (airships to be more precise), just as Helen’s had done in Homer’s epic tale, the Iliad. Like Troy in that ancient…